I recently completed my first cross-country homebrew trade, with Brandon who writes the Thirsty Zymurgist blog. I was pretty nervous to send my brews cross country to Oregon to be tried by someone I’d never met before, but I figured it was good practice for the Iron Brewer tasting coming up next week; what the heck! Brandon sent me three [...]

Whilst I’m on vacation in the rolling green hills of western MA, some wonderful people have offered to write some guest posts for me. Today my friend Tom (not a beer geek), who writes the fantastically informative book review blog Completely Booked, chronicles a trip to Total Wine and the subsequent beer tasting with his girlfriend Vicki. To this uninitiated [...]

So, something rare happened in the “Shapiro” household this past weekend; we ran out of meat. This is quite the accomplishment from the couple whose freezer has been called the “meat freezer” by roommates past! Brent actually thought the idea that there was no meat in the fridge/freezer was so absurd that he actually pulled every last vegetable out of [...]

I forgot to post July’s sign! Sounds pretty fair to me; I wonder if Lois Frankel has read this sign? I hope so.

My friend Amie (@CatLadyBeer on twitter) stopped by last weekend to say hi and try out a couple of our brews on the way home to Gainesville, and to drop off the score she picked up for us in NoFL on the way down (including a Harpoon 100 Barrel Series ESB I plan on cracking open tonight!!). She also very [...]

This is the 4th or 5th BrewDog offering I’ve tried, and frankly, I’ve really liked them all so far; yes, even Dogma which a lot of others are not too fond of. This was an abomination. A dismal failure. Sorry James and Martin, I wish I could say otherwise; but this is by far the worst (non-macro) beer I’ve had [...]

This weekend I was dying for some red meat; we’ve been mostly eating turkey and chicken lately because they are the only meats we’ve been able to find at the local Winn Dixie that are organic/grass fed (Food, Inc destroyed me people). So I gave in and bought the “all natural, certified humane” skirt steak, even though I know those [...]

What a treat! My “Liquor correspondent” Brent joins us this A.M. for a write up on one of Rogue Brewery’s liquor offerings If you missed his review over on his blog of Rogue’s Whiskey, you can catch up on it here!______________________________________________________________ Pink Champagne? White Zin? No no no, this is something special, something from the west. Wild, exciting, a "Rogue" [...]